Lineages / Mentors / Sources

Lineages

Mentors, sources, and living histories

MSA studies the people, cultural contexts, and relationships through which movement knowledge travels. These figures are points of orientation within a wider field, not a closed canon.

Profiles

Practices carry histories.

MSA studies the people, cultural contexts, and relationships through which movement knowledge travels. These figures are points of orientation within a wider field, not a closed canon.

We approach lineage through attribution, contextual study, critical dialogue, and direct practice rather than ownership or uncritical inheritance.

1904-1984

Moshe Feldenkrais

Developer of the Feldenkrais Method

A physicist, engineer, martial artist, and educator whose method studies how sensing, movement, attention, and learning can expand human possibility.

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1927-2024

Mia Segal

Teacher and formative transmission figure

Moshe Feldenkrais' first assistant, collaborator, and first authorized practitioner, she carried the work through decades of precise teaching and international study.

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1911-1976

Haruchika Noguchi

Founder and developer of Seitai

He organized Seitai as an approach to bodily education and developed practices and concepts including katsugen undo, yuki, and taiheki.

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Living lineage

Hiroyuki Noguchi

Body educator and Do-ho researcher

Haruchika Noguchi's son, he continued research into Japanese body culture and articulated Do-ho through the Shintai Kyoiku Kenkyusho.

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Mentor / Source

Toshiyuki Tanaka

Jardim dos Ventos · Seitai-ho and Do-ho

A senior source for MSA's study of Seitai-ho, Do-ho, spontaneous movement, Japanese body education, calligraphy, voice, and performance.

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Mentor / Source

José Maria Carvalho

Núcleo Viver de Dança · Dance and somatic education

A senior source for MSA's inquiry into dance, improvisation, Feldenkrais-informed learning, Brazilian movement research, and choreographic practice.

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Historical note. Haruchika Noguchi developed and founded Seitai. His son Hiroyuki Noguchi continued this body-education research and is particularly associated with Do-ho and the Shintai Kyoiku Kenkyusho.